Told you this might be a bad week for Thad.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has sent a Request For Additional Information (RFAI) to Mississippi Conservatives, a Super PAC supporting the re-election of Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. The committee has until August 1st to respond, or the failure to do so “could result in an audit or enforcement action.”

Not only do we have allegations of vote buying in the Mississippi GOP Senate runoff, we now have the federal agency in charge of elections looking into whether this SuperPac with ties to the Barbour clan violated the law.

Roll Call also noted an IE to a group called Winning Edge.

The FEC also sought answers for an independent expenditure paid to Winning Edge that was reported on a 24-hour report, but was not correlated with the committee’s Schedule E for the 12-Day pre-runoff report covering 5/15 through 6/4.

This isn’t the week Thad Cochran thought he would be having after such a glorious electoral victory. To have the possibility of over 3000 votes in just a single county half the counties being classified as “irregular” isn’t something you see often. [Corrected as per this tweet]